Originally posted by: mikecel79
Originally posted by: thegorx
The biggest problem I run into is the fact that IE doesn't have a uninstall or a repair option for that matter in Windows XP.
You can use the Internet Explorer Administration Kit for this. It lets you build an entire IE6 SP1 installation. I've used it many times with success.
even the old systems with windows 98 the repair option was a joke
it wouldn't repair mismatched file versions.
that had to be done manually.
The IEAK also works for this too. But your right the repair option in 98 wasn't all that great.
I think administrator should have a set of tools to remove and reinstall components
but it makes it difficult when the components are all intergrated and patched to newer versions instead of having a complete versions that is fixed.
You can use the IEAK to build a installation and then you just have to include the last cumulative update for IE in there with it. We've used the IEAK to install IE6 on 500+ machines and used it for repairing machine where IE stopped working also. Give it a shot.
Thanks, I will give it a try, although I seen some pretty buggy IE after spyware gets done with it, I'll have to wait and find a good test for it.
another thing that bothers me is networking components
it use to be you could remove the TCP/IP from the network properties
and then there is the network adapters staying in the registry
and as far as I can tell can only be removed manually
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet\Control\Network
in most cases it doesn't matter but I seen these get totally messed up
pick an adapter any adapter..... it don't matter if it aint there no more.
then as for norton I really don't care for norton AV either
what is with this software that can't be uninstalled or easily uninstalled
or just leaves all those class identifiers in the registry